In the minutes, hours and days after Sporting Kansas City midfielder Benny Feilhaber found himself on the dangerous end of a tackle from an LA Galaxy defender, the events offered little, if any, optimism.
Feilhaber called for a substitute almost immediately after the challenge from Nathan Smith on Saturday left him wincing on the ground, and he spent the remainder of Sporting KC’s 2-1 victory on the bench with ice over his ankle. After the match, a trainer carried Feilhaber off the field on his back. A day later, Feilhaber posted a picture to his Twitter account, and he was sitting in a wheelchair in the airport (though there a tongue-in-cheek trace to that).